Padilla, 27, was shot twice in the head. He died at St. Barnabas Hospital about 50 minutes later.

Garcia is described as 6-foot-1 and about 150 pounds and Stapleton as 5-11 and 170.

*** Three thugs shot a man dead in Edenwald early yesterday, police said.

David White, 22, died 30 minutes after the three opened fire on him behind an East 229th Street building at 1 a.m., cops said.

Witnesses said White had been with a group of about 20 people in the Edenwald Houses courtyard when the men began firing and then chased him while yelling, “Get the guy in the red!”

White, wearing a black and red baseball cap, was struck once in the abdomen, police said. He died at Jacobi Hospital.

*** An argument between two men led to gunfire in Mott Haven early yesterday, police said.

A 29-year-old whose name was not released was shot in the chest on East 133rd Street near St. Ann’s Avenue at about 4 a.m., cops said.

He was listed in critical condition yesterday evening at Lincoln Hospital, they added.

According to authorities, the victim and his assailant had engaged in a brawl before the shooting.

BROOKLYN

*** A partygoer fatally stabbed another after a run-in at an East Flatbush club early yesterday, police sources said.

A friend reported finding Rawle Sampson, 29, suffering from several knife wounds on Linden Boulevard near Bedford Avenue at about 5 p.m.

The friend took Sampson to nearby Kings County Hospital, but he died there from injuries to the leg and torso at 5:30 a.m., authorities said.

QUEENS

*** A Forest Hills woman illegally collected more than $8,000 in unemployment benefits while working as an anti-money-laundering agent at an international bank, authorities said yesterday.

Glenda Pichardo, 34, was arrested Wednesday. A criminal complaint says she filed for unemployment with the New York State Department of Labor in January 2004 and collected benefits until that July 11.

She allegedly phoned in on a weekly basis to confirm being out of work, but an investigation uncovered the fact that between Feb. 27, 2004, and July 16 of that year she worked for the bank in Jersey City, law-enforcement sources said.

Charged with grand larceny and with falsifying business records, she faces up to seven years in prison if convicted, said a spokeswoman for Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.

*** A Jackson Heights man was busted for sexually attacking a 12-year-old girl in the backroom of the Flushing deli in which he worked, law-enforcement sources said.

Antonio Ibarra-Rios, 21, assaulted the girl in the Metropolitan Avenue store near Arnold Avenue at 4 p.m. on Sept. 15, according to a complaint filed in criminal court.

Ibarra-Rios kissed, fondled and sodomized the girl, sources said.

He is charged with a criminal sex act and with endangering the welfare of a child.